... Gillray as the epitome of the Wildean cynic: a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Courted by Whigs and Tories for his coarsely malicious pow ers of caricature, he works for both in order to pay the rent. The dangers of playing ...

... doctors who vied with each other in their ignorance and superstition, and the political upheaval caused by his illness, with the Whigs championing, for their own ends, the ambition of the Prince of Wales to be appointed Regent. In a series of affecting scenes ...